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Re: libffi compilation failure on Solaris 10?
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- To: Paolo Bonzini <paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Stewart Stremler <gst-user at stremler dot net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:05:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: libffi compilation failure on Solaris 10?
- References: <456F2470.2030404@lu.unisi.ch>
> This bug, documented in the installation instructions:
> [...]
> apparently can also be triggered by libffi on Solaris 10. See
> http://www.mail-archive.com/g-wrap-dev@nongnu.org/msg00045.html and
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2006-July/034400.html
> for build logs.
I'm a bit skeptical, Kaveh and I have been building libffi on SPARC/Solaris 10
for a couple of years without a hitch (3.4.x, 4.x) with the Sun tools. Of
course it all depends on the version of the Sun assembler or...
> Anybody knows what are the affected releases in this case, whether it is
> an assembler or linker bug, and whether there is a workaround?
... if the user is trying to link objects files assembled by the GNU assembler
using the Sun linker.
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Eric Botcazou